542569 - "Open in new tab" no longer single-click operation

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[CEP]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

This problem is unique to a Lenovo laptop (with the joystick-thingy), and I have NOT replicated it on other machines with three-button pointing devices.

When using the built-in pointing buttons -- either right-click, menu, or middle-click -- a new tab opens... but does not begin to load. Instead, one must go to that tab and left-click the checkmark on the righthand end of the location bar to start the tab loading.

This is possibly related to <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20618">bug 20618</a>, and is new to Firefox 3.6 (no problem with 3.5.7).

Reproducible: Always




This MAY be a unique interaction among the software drivers for the Lenovo pointing device, the XPSP3 interface, and something minor that changed in Firefox 3.6. If so, I can live with it... it's annoying, but I'm not going to have that machine forever...

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode or a fresh profile? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 2

[CEP]

Cannot confirm as the machine in question has died. It is NOT a problem with a desktop using an external three-button mouse... but it never was.

I recommend closing, and have done so.

Comment 3

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Glad it is working. Fixed is only used when we know what code checkin fixed the issue. Marking as WFM